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[–] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There's also a description in real units:

All the heat the Stratos Project emits will add up to another 7 to 8 gigawatts of energy in the form of waste heat.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Too bad a gigawatt isn’t a unit of energy, it’s a unit of power. The media gets this wrong almost every single time.

    Edit: The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of 13-18 kilotons of TNT, or 54-75 terajoules of energy. Since the chain reaction of a nuclear fission weapon takes about 1 μs, and 1 watt is 1 joule/s, 54 terajoules released in 1 μs is 5.4 * 10^19 watts of power, or 54 billion gigawatts.

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